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Painting

Braddock's Defeat

Date: 1903
Description: An important event of the French and Indian War (1754-1763) was commissioned in 1903 by Robert Laird McCormick, president of the State Historical Society o...
Poster

The Southern Prisons of U.S. Officers

Date: 1865
Description: "The Southern Prisons of U.S. Officers: Scenes from life as a prisoner of war, with explanations--sketched by Lieut. & Top Eng'r O.R. Dahl, 15th Wisconsin ...
Poster

Military Memorial Poster

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Description: Commemorative poster honoring duties of the States and those that fought and lead the war.
Photograph

Travelling "de luxe" in Russia, by Horse-Drawn Sled

Date: 1918
Description: Lieutenant Colonel P.S. Morris, Commanding Officer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in heavy fur clothing, laying in a sled with a horse harnessed and ready ...
Photograph

Major McArdle

Date: 1918
Description: Major McArdle returning to a village from an inspection trip. He is riding in a horse-drawn wagon with a driver, and local Russians, women and children, ar...
Photograph

Market Place and Russian Troops

Date: 1918
Description: A large group of Russian soldiers are assembled and appear to be drilling within the center of a Russian town. Civilians stand off to the side observing th...
Photograph

Officers Returning from the Front

Date: 1918
Description: Two officers wearing heavy winter clothes are seated in a horse-drawn wooden sleigh on a snowy path. Just behind them is a building that appears to be a Ru...
Photograph

Commander Russell and Staff at Dept. Reunion — Camp Logan at Omaha

Date: 09 1887
Description: Outdoor group portrait of six men sitting around a table in military uniform in an open field. On the table are pens, an inkwell, two cigar boxes and paper...
Photograph

Folgaria Hotel

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Description: Soldiers relaxing in front of the Folgaria Hotel in Italy. Three men on the left are smoking cigarettes, and a man in the center is sitting in a horse-draw...
Photograph

Temporary Bridge Over the Tolpa River

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Description: Temporary bridge and plank road over the Tolpa River in Poland. In order to improve the bad roads, plank bridges have been constructed and are proving ver...
Photograph

Temporary Bridge Over the Tolpa River

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Description: Temporary bridge and plank road over the Tolpa River in Poland. In order to improve the bad roads, plank bridges have been constructed and are proving very...
Photograph

Supply Wagon

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Description: Supply wagons, passing by the Siegesallee, heading for the war zone.
Photograph

Supply Wagons

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Description: Supply wagons, passing by the Siegesallee, heading for the war zone.
Photograph

Bavarian Supply Column

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Description: Our Bavarians in the Vosges. Supply column on the road.
Photograph

Scattered Cattle

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Description: Cattle, scattered by the fighting, are being herded together next to a burned-out barn building.
Photograph

Patrol

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Description: Patrol on the front marches through the muddy conditions during a storm.
Photograph

"Put Out Your Flags— Antwerp Is Ours!"

Date: 10 1914
Description: Horse-drawn trams in Berlin, bedecked with German flags, celebrating the capture of the City of Antwerp in October 1914.
Photograph

Djemal Pascha Departing Jerusalem

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Description: Djemal Pascha departing Jerusalem on the way to the front and war.
Photograph

Djemal Pascha Departing Jerusalem

Date: 01 1915
Description: Djemal Pascha geting ready to get in a horse-drawn carriage as he departs Jerusalem.
Photograph

Constantinople

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Description: The most recent photograph of the Sultan in Constantinople.

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